ARCHITECTURE

FENG SHUI

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Cole & Izzo Architects

     

 

Accredited Feng Shui Practitioner



FENG SHUI
General Feng Shui advice
Recommendations for existing buildings and gardens  
Domestic, commercial, industrial projects
Site and building evaluations
Geopathic Stress and Chi analysis
Feng Shui design evaluation of plants
Feng Shui interiors and Gardens

What is Feng Shui?
The relative Feng Shui of places (buildings) is a measure of their ambience, energy, feeling, aura, etc. It is about the relationships between the geography of an area of land, its man made structures and objects, all its life forms and energies, climate and the intermingling of these various energies. Perfect Feng Shui will occur when energies are in perfect harmony as exists in idyllic nature.  

What is the point of Feng Shui?
Feng Shui (pronounced 'fong shway') are two Chinese words which literally mean wind and water. To the Chinese, wind is often associated with the flow of Chi (energy/lifeforce) and water, associated with the storage or accumulation of Chi. Where good Chi accumulates, it will create good energy and this space will be said to enjoy good Feng Shui, which in turn leads to enhanced lifestyles for those who frequent there, hence making places with good Feng Shui very desirable.  

How can you get good Feng Shui?
Good Feng Shui is the art of balancing and harmonising the energy in an environment to create beneficial changes for those in that environment. The art of knowing how to obtain good Feng Shui was originally developed in China, and was first used as a way of locating grave sites for the benefit of the dead and later used to locate homes, communities and entire cities for the benefit of the living.

Over time, the study of Feng Shui has continually developed and spread, with there now being various different schools and branches, all aimed at creating optimum Feng Shui.

The art of Feng Shui practice is based on the Taoist philosophies of nature: which include Chi, the Yin-Yang Theory, Five Element Theory, The Bagua and the Trigrams.  

Architecture, landscaping, building and decorating works and furnishings are the domain of the 'Form School' otherwise known and the 'Landscape School of Feng Shui'. This Landscape School is the foundation and sets up the basics for all other Feng Shui Schools.  

Today's Feng Shui Practitioner  
The complexity of modern buildings, their impact of scale and density, together with the general infrastructure imposed on the landscape, provide many challenges to creating good Feng Shui. As well as finding the right site, today's practitioner must also consciously manipulate the Chi of the building and surrounds to generate that auspicious Chi - which leads to good Feng Shui and its benefits to the people.  

Excellent Feng Shui is achieved in architecture by creatively manipulating the spatial relationships of the building elements, the energies of the landscape, the energies of its colours and textures, integrating nature, designing lighting effects, designing holistically and all with the thorough understanding of the Taoist philosophies of "Chi Flow" "Yin and Yang", "The Five Elements" and "The Bagua" etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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